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[Piru]

I have to agree with Cymric in most points (however semi-working libpthreads does exist at least). fork() will never work on AmigaOS or compatibles.

The sheer size of the project always made it almost close to impossible to get anything sensible out of it. I'm sorry if this shatters dreams of anyone, but with current work commited to AmiZilla, it will never see the day of light.

[Piru]

I still don't get the point of fork(), is it just a quick and simple way to get a small part of your code executing as a separate thread which can do a function and die...?

No. It splits the current process in two, the only difference being the return code of fork() call. Everything else is 100% the same, addressing, fhs, etc.

AmigaOS or compatibles will never be able to implement fork().

[Piru]

I find it hard to see the point :-)

It's for lazy coders so that they don't need to write proper asynchronous I/O in their apps. :-)